I’m smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
NASI think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
More Nas Quotes
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I’ve seen out there, you know, the things that’s out there that ain’t good for her. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.
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